January 2009

CES 2009: CMS Products shows off latest backup software: BounceBack Ultimate

CMS Products introduced the latest version of their BounceBack product, called BounceBack Ultimate which has some very interesting new features. As a couple of sys admins, we were impressed by what BounceBack is able to do, mainly backup an entire Windows 2000/XP/Vista system to an external hard drive and then boot off of that drive [...]

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Reading For Your Inner Geek

Happy New Year everyone, have you downloaded the Beta of Windows 7 yet? If not, you better get your skates on as the Beta download is for a short time only. I have been busy reading over the holiday break and have some good recommendations of reading for you. The first is the thought provoker [...]

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CES 2009: Blogging at NBC Universal’s booth – more photos

Here are a few more photos from our time blogging at the NBC Universal booth at CES. Here I am chatting with Bill Hartnett, Senior VP at NBCU, who was kind enough to take time out to discuss why NBC feels it’s important to be present at a trade show such as CES. Chief Gizmateer [...]

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Review: Dirt Devil KWIK Computer Mini-Vac

As a frequent reader of our blog, you will already know that Dirt Devil added a new item to their product line last year aimed at computer users – the KWIK Mini-Vac. Dirt Devil was kind enough to send us a sample to test out and here is our review. In a nutshell, love it. [...]

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BillShrink.com – compare cell phones and credit cards

Beats me as to why they only compare these 2 items, but BillShrink.com does a decent job of allowing you to compare cell phone plans and the phones themselves. Oh yes, credit cards too. Just answer a few questions, and who knows – you could switch plans and save some moolah.

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Analog to Digital Converters – Round Up

Here we have a furious round up of some of the many analog to digital converters we’ve featured over the years to persuade you to digitize your precious analog collections of audio cassettes, vinyl records, photographs, slides/negatives and VHS tapes. Let’s go! Audio Cassettes With CDs looking like they’re being overtaken by new performance discs [...]

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CES 2009: NVIDIA Ion platform makes for smallest PC

NVIDIA is touting its new Ion platform as they’ve demonstrated how it can be used to make the world’s smallest Vista capable premium PC. By plugging the Ion board into a case that is just slightly larger than the board and adding a hard drive, the PC is complete. What’s more interesting is that the [...]

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Watts Up? .net Internet Enabled Power Meter

Not only can you tell what it costs to run an appliance now with a Watts Up? device, but the device provides Internet enabled power switching and data access! The Watts Up? .net stores 6,500 data points in non-volatile memory, which can be retrieved even if power is lost. The sample rate resolution increases over [...]

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MyChime Wireless Door Chime and Bell Push with USB Sound Card

Are you tired of your boring old doorbell tones? This gizmo replaces your chime and include a USB sound card that allows you to download custom tunes. Imagine your favorite college fight song playing when someone rings the doorbell. This all-in-one kit installs in minutes allowing you to customize and convert sound files to chime [...]

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#CES09: Thoughts on the Palm Pre

Closely following Palm’s announcement of their brand new mobile handset, the Pre, and operating system (webOS), reaction was swift and unanimously exuberant. Palm has certainly hit this out of the park, and if the tech community’s reaction is any indication, this will certainly save the company for at least a little while to come. My [...]

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